Well now what’s to prevent her from lying again? After taking the 5th she proceeded to go on with additional comments that removed her 5th Amendment protection.

Published March 03, 2014

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Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, a central figure in the IRS scandal, will appear before Congress Wednesday after refusing to testify last year on the matter, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday.

Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told “Fox News Sunday” that Lerner’s lawyers have indicated she will testify before his committee, after saying last week that she would not

Lois Learner was incorrect to assert the 5th Amendment. Said assertion was penned by our Fore Fathers to protect oneself in a court of law against self-incrimination.

Since she was not bound over by a grand jury and was not testifying in a criminal case in court but was subpoenaed to testify before a the House Congressional Oversight Committee the 5th Amendment would not apply.

As most members of this administration have shown the proclivity to perjure themselves and obstruct justice when called to testify, it’s likely Ms. Learner, also an attorney was lying through her teeth and knew she was doing so.

Perhaps in the future when members of the Obama junta are compelled to testify before a congressional committee they should become familiar with the “Otter Defense,” taken from the movie, “Animal House.”

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that she will be given a new higher paying position in the government, after all a dedicated Marxist is not that easily found.

The IRS has announced the retirement of Lois Lerner, one of the key officials at the center of the scandal over the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups that had applied for tax-exempt status.

Lerner, the former head of the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations office, had been on paid administrative leave since she asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee in May.

Thank God for FOX News, of course they too are constrained on what they can cover but on this one as Tucker says at the end, “We are going to do everything possible to keep this one from sinking beneath the waves.

Last week, while the world’s eyes were fixed upon the Obama administration’s fumbled response to the Syria crisis, new documents emerged in the allegedly “phony” IRS scandal.

These documents – emails from Lois Lerner, then Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS – were short, but highly damaging to the IRS’s persistent (and pernicious) spin.

The first email, a February 1, 2011, message to – among others – Obama donor and fellow IRS executive Holly Paz, proclaims: “Tea Party matter very dangerous. This could be the vehicle to go to court on the issue over whether Citizen’s United overturning the ban on corporate spending applies to tax exempt rules . . . Cincy should probably NOT have these cases – Holly please see what they have please [sic].”

As Congressman Trey Gowdy correctly points out below, once an individual take the 5th Amendment precluding any testimony to be used against them, they can’t open with a barrage of comments saying they are guilty of no wrong doing.

We must remember that the goal of these investigations is not to get the members of the IRS who were following their orders but the members of Congress who planned to use the information uncovered for nefarious purposes.

Learner, by opening her mouth has lied to congress. Look for her to be trying to make a back room deal with Issa very soon so that she might avoid a grand jury and probably 20 year sentence at the conclusion of a resultant trial.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it., I’m J.C. and I approve this message.

Internal Revenue Service Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner leaves a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after refusing to testify on May 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

The committee is investigating allegations that the IRS targeted conservative nonprofit organizations with “Tea Party,” “patriot” and other words in their names for additional scrutiny. Lerner, who headed the division that oversees exempt organizations, exercised her constitutional right not to answer questions.

We the People after this administration may never trust the government again.

The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the political targeting scandal invoked her constitutional right not to answer lawmakers’ questions on Wednesday, but defiantly asserted that she has done nothing wrong — prompting confusion about how exactly she was using her right not to incriminate herself.

Lois Lerner leads the IRS office that determines which organizations receive tax-exempt status, and was the first to publicly disclose earlier this month that the IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups.

“I have not done anything wrong, I have not broken any laws, I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee,” Lerner told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members. “While I would very much like to answer the committee’s questions today, I have been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject manner of this hearing.”

Lerner added that by asserting her right not to testify, “I know that some people will assume I have done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals, and that is the protection I am invoking today.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted that because Lerner had asserted her innocence in her opening statement, “I believe you have not asserted your rights but have effectively waived your rights” and took her refusal to answer as a refusal to testify.

An incensed Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) spoke up that Lerner should testify, agreeing that she already waived her constitutional privilege.

“You don’t get to tell your side of the story and not be subjected to cross-examination. That’s not the way it works. She waived her right to Fifth Amendment privilege by issuing an opening statement, she ought to stand here and answer our questions,” Gowdy said, earning applause from the audience.